Is there any way to read .docx file include auto numbering using python-docx

It appears that currently python-docx v0.8 does not fully support numbering. You need to do some hacking.

First, for the demo, to iterate the document paragraphs, you need to write your own iterator.Here is something functional:

import docx.documentimport docx.oxml.tableimport docx.oxml.text.paragraphimport docx.tableimport docx.text.paragraphdef iter_paragraphs(parent, recursive=True):    """    Yield each paragraph and table child within *parent*, in document order.    Each returned value is an instance of Paragraph. *parent*    would most commonly be a reference to a main Document object, but    also works for a _Cell object, which itself can contain paragraphs and tables.    """    if isinstance(parent, docx.document.Document):        parent_elm = parent.element.body    elif isinstance(parent, docx.table._Cell):        parent_elm = parent._tc    else:        raise TypeError(repr(type(parent)))    for child in parent_elm.iterchildren():        if isinstance(child, docx.oxml.text.paragraph.CT_P):            yield docx.text.paragraph.Paragraph(child, parent)        elif isinstance(child, docx.oxml.table.CT_Tbl):            if recursive:                table = docx.table.Table(child, parent)                for row in table.rows:                    for cell in row.cells:                        for child_paragraph in iter_paragraphs(cell):                            yield child_paragraph

You can use it to find all document paragraphs including paragraphs in table cells.

For instance:

import docxdocument = docx.Document("sample.docx")for paragraph in iter_paragraphs(document):    print(paragraph.text)

To access the numbering property, you need to search in the "protected" members paragraph._p.pPr.numPr, which is a docx.oxml.numbering.CT_NumPr object:

for paragraph in iter_paragraphs(document):    num_pr = paragraph._p.pPr.numPr    if num_pr is not None:        print(num_pr)  # type: docx.oxml.numbering.CT_NumPr

Note that this object is extracted from the numbering.xml file (inside the docx), if it exists.

To access it, you need to read your docx file like a package. For instance:

import docx.packageimport docx.parts.documentimport docx.parts.numberingpackage = docx.package.Package.open("sample.docx")main_document_part = package.main_document_partassert isinstance(main_document_part, docx.parts.document.DocumentPart)numbering_part = main_document_part.numbering_partassert isinstance(numbering_part, docx.parts.numbering.NumberingPart)ct_numbering = numbering_part._elementprint(ct_numbering)  # CT_Numberingfor num in ct_numbering.num_lst:    print(num)  # CT_Num    print(num.abstractNumId)  # CT_DecimalNumber

Mor information is available in the Office Open XMl documentation.

There is a package, docx2python which does this in a lot simpler fashion: pypi.org/project/docx2python/

The following code:

from docx2python import docx2pythondocument = docx2python("C:/input/MyDoc.docx")print(document.body)

produces a list which contains the contents including bullet lists in a nice parse-able fashion.